Superintendent Robert Mendoza said the board chose to change companies after putting out a request for proposals and deciding Summit was the best choice.

“We just went out for food service contracts (this year),” Mendoza said.

In other business, the Board of Education also voted to accept an allocation of $62,755 from the state’s Title 2 grant, which is geared toward teacher and principal improvement.

“We really appreciate this Title 2 (money) because it allows us to fund three teachers for classroom size reduction,” Mendoza said.

He said the money will also go toward those teachers attending training and classes to improve themselves.

In addition to the regular business of the meeting, Mimbres resident Linda Pafford voiced some of her concerns with the district during public comments.

Pafford, who has previously complained about transparency in the board and district, raised the same concerns at Tuesday’s meeting.

“The agenda was not published online by noon today,” Pafford said to the board.

Pafford said this is not the only time this has happened. She said this information is supposed to be made public 72 hours before a public meeting.

“I didn’t know what the agenda was going to be,” she said.

Pafford also questioned the board’s publishing of legal notices to inform the public about board meetings.

She said there was a special meeting last week, on the same day as the Silver Consolidated School District Board of Education meeting, but she could not find where the legal notice was in the newspapers.

“It was in the (Silver City Daily) Press,” board President Toy Sepulveda told Pafford.

Despite this, Pafford said she also wants to see more detail in the minutes.

“I again request more information in the minutes,” she said. “I’ve been told that your legal representation has suggested you keep it as bare-bones as possible, but it makes it absolutely impossible to follow what’s going on if I’m not here at every meeting.”

At the end of the meeting, Mendoza said the Board of Education will meet only once in July. That meeting will be on July 27.